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I’m Taking Pride in My Chinese Heritage By Making Hong Kong Egg Tarts

Hong Kong egg tarts are a quintessential part of Cantonese cuisine. Learning to make the pastry helped me reconnect with my culture.

Spam and Perilla Kimbap

This salty-sweet kimbap—filled with maple-candied spam and herbaceous perilla leaves—is wonderful in a packed lunch or even at a picnic.

Crispy Curried Chicken Cutlets With a Lot of Cabbage

Eric Kim’s ultra-crispy curried chicken cutlets and cabbage slaw come together for a delicious and easy weeknight dinner.

Hong Kong Egg Tarts

To make classic Hong Kong egg tarts, fill flaky pastry shells—or store-bought dough—with a vanilla-scented custard and bake until just set.

Fluffy, Crunchy Melon Pan: When Bread Meets Cookie, Everyone Wins

My entire life, I’ve loved the sorts of treats that combine a fluffy bun with a crunchy cookie top. Here’s how to make my black sesame melon pan.

Black Sesame Melon Pan

Melon pan is a traditional sweet bun from Japan made of an enriched dough with a crispy cookie layer on top.

Salt and Pepper Chile Squid

Plenty of seasoned cornstarch and a clean vat of high-heating oil is the secret to light and crispy fried salt and pepper squid.

Pineapple Buns

Despite the name, the pineapple bun has no pineapple—it’s a soft milk-bread bun with a sweet, buttery, crackly cookie-like top that, after it’s baked, resembles pineapple skin.

How to Make Crispy, Chewy Mochi Doughnuts at Home

A pastry chef’s guide to making mochi doughnuts at home—and glazing them in a rainbow of colors.

Mochi Doughnuts

These ring-shaped mochi doughnuts use mochiko and tapioca flours to get a little extra chew and bounce.

Miso Soup

Savory, warming miso soup is a Japanese mainstay, commonly enjoyed for breakfast alongside rice, eggs, fish, and pickles.

Shao Bing

These sesame flatbreads can be made ahead and frozen—or, if you plan ahead, made fresh for breakfast.

Stir-Fried Sesame Baby Bok Choy

In this bok choy recipe, you’ll stir fry the vegetables with soy sauce, ginger, and garlic, and drizzle with sesame oil.

Hong Kong–Style French Toast

Thick slices of milk bread are stuffed with creamy peanut butter and soaked in an egg batter for a luscious and exquisitely custardy interior.

Alina’s Milk Bread

Using tangzhong—a technique that calls for mixing a cooked flour mixture into bread dough—produces a bread that’s unbelievably soft, sweet, and fluffy.

During Chinese New Year, There's Never Enough Cake

Each bite of turnip cake is filled with different savory elements—fatty pork, briny shellfish, and earthy mushrooms—suspended in a mixture of grated radish and rice flour.

Orange Chicken

Starring crispy fried thigh meat dressed in a savory, citrus glaze, orange chicken is a Chinese American take-out staple well worth making at home.

My Mukbang Obsession Taught Me to Love Wooden Spoons

Wooden spoons are used throughout Korea to eat soup, stews, and rice dishes. If you don't have one already, you need one for soup this winter.

Make This Braising Liquid Once, Reuse It Forever

Flavor-potting sets you up for success with a flavorful braising broth that you can cook with again and again.

Chaozhou Flavor-Potted Tofu

Braise tofu in an aromatic and spice-filled broth that’s used not just once but over and over again.